Class 2 – Friday, August 28

Talking to computers — anatomize

Communication — The essence of love and work — Now the Python way

Do not be afraid — Do not hide what makes you, you — You are welcomed here

Moment of silence — Remember thou shalt not kill — Moment of silence

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Important

• If you are problems with the Zoom link refresh that page or check your email.

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Look both ways

• Back or ahead

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Worksheet

• Programming vocabulary / lexicon

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Examples of the day

• Program print_quote.py

• Program camouflage_not_needed.py

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Word of the day

• Lexicon

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Shape your future

• Influence the problem sets we consider this semester. It is our intention to choose problems the best we can that interest all students. It is known that faculty and student interests can differ.

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Start of class activities

• Read the entire web page (preferably before class)

• Open PyCharm

• Download class examples (do not need to re-download unless asked too)

• Talk to your neighbors

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Typical during class activities

• Learn

• Try

• Ask questions

• Make suggestions

• Provide answers

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Typical post-class activities

• Read

• Examine artifacts

• Learn

• Try

• Write down questions

• Complete the homework

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Agenda

• Debate Are computers smart or stupid?

• Parse Throw the person from the train a kiss

• Learn what we mean by syntactic, semantic, and logic errors

• Introduce Python

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Slam

• Haiku submissions

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Vocabulary to which you should become accustomed; i.e., a lexicon when participating in computing-related structured communication

Algorithm Program Statement Code Execute (run) Grammar Syntax Semantics

Style snake_case Comment Header comment Whitespace Indentation Translate Compiling

Interpret Scripting Identifier Letter case Expressions Function Built-in function print()

Invoke Argument String Literal Parentheses Single quote Double quote

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Examples of the day

• Program print_quote.py

  

• Program camouflage_not_needed.py

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• Program look_before_you_sit.py

  

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To do list

• Review class artifacts

• Examine one or more of the following

• Spronk's The Coder's Apprentice sections 2 – 4

• Wentworth, Elkner, Downey, and Meyers' How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python 3: Sections 10.2 – 10.11 on terminology

• Homework.

• Examine an epistle that I wrote for this class.

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BTW

• When someone says chresomathics for the first time un-mute and cheer We are UVA

 

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